X-ray imaging and the skin: Radiation biology, patient dosimetry and observed effects

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 121-125

  Geleijins, Jacob ^a   Wondergem, Jan ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AGE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSIMETRY; EPIDERMIS; ERYTHEMA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOBIOLOGY; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN NECROSIS; TELANGIECTASIA; X RAY;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 21244476811     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch544     Document Type: Article

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